Health Care for All
The McCain Health Plan: Millions Lose Coverage, Health Costs Worsen, and Insurance and Drug Industries Win
April 29th, 2008
Sen. John McCain's health care plan is a dangerous fraud. It will dismantle the employer-provided system that now covers about 158 million Americans and will force millions of workers to fend for themselves in a market controlled by unregulated and predatory insurance companies. His plan would drive health care costs upward, not downward.
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Socialized Medicine: Let's Try a Dose
"Socialized medicine" is the bogeyman that just won't die. But far from being a threat, getting the government more involved in health care would actually reduce costs, improve quality and bolster the U.S. economy. If socialized medicine means doing what our public-insurance programs and other nations' health systems do to control costs, expand coverage and improve the quality of care, it's high time for a little socialization.... more »
Lewin Group: 'Health Care for America' Works
"Health Care for America," developed for the Economic Policy Institute by Yale University
Political Science Professor Jacob Hacker, would provide health care coverage for virtually every American while generating huge cost savings — more than $1 trillion over 10 years, according to the Lewin Group, a nationally respected, nonpartisan consulting firm. Their report offers the most detailed analysis of the reform proposal to date.
ALSO: Read Roger Hickey's commentary on the study.... more »
Mythbusting Canadian Health Care -- Part I
February 4th, 2008
In the universal health care debate, Canada is once again getting dragged into the fracas, shoved around by both sides as either an exemplar or a warning — and, along the way, getting coated with the obfuscating dust of so many willful misconceptions that the actual facts about How Canada Does It are completely obscured in the melee. As a health-care-card-carrying Canadian resident and an uninsured American citizen who regularly sees doctors on both sides of the border, I'm in a unique position to address the pros and cons of both systems first-hand.... more »
The Lessons of '94
Ezra Klein writes that our health care system, as currently composed, cannot go on forever. It will wreck our economy, collapse our businesses, and render both private and public insurance unaffordable. And so, it will stop. Reform is not a question of if, but when, and how.... more »
The Voices
Conservatism Collapses in the Emergency Room
Sen. John McCain and the Bush administration should be taken to task for failing to address one of the most critical failings of our health care system: our overstressed urban hospitals.more »
The Age of the "Insurance Card Marriage"
Some people marry for love, some for companionship, and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance.more »
The News
Hospital Capacity In Crisis
May 7th, 2008
Failing Economy Means Failing Health
May 6th, 2008
The Facts
Health Care For America
Health Care For America allows people to keep the health care coverage they have and offers Americans the choice to buy into a public plan like Medicare. It combines personal responsibility and an employer contribution to create a new framework ensuring that everyone is covered.more »
Medicare becoming more cost-efficient
Medicare cost savings rose to $1.2 billion in 2006 from $136 million in 2001
The Case
The Change We Need
There are seven basic principles that should be a part of any health care proposal. We need to find a system that will: more »
Fight Back Against Medicare and Medicaid Cuts
Cuts in payments to doctors and hospitals will only worsen the underfunding of our medical infrastructure and increase disincentives for doctors to care for Medicare and Medicaid patients. What's really needed is reform: Our country's current health care system wastes hundreds of billions of dollars in administrative and advertising expenses, and in efforts to shift or deny payment. Medicare's administrative costs are up to four times less than those of the private insurance companies subsidized by Medicare Advantage. Congress should resist the Bush administration's cost-cutting proposals and instead set the stage for real reform of our health care system.more »
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8
2008
Conservatism Collapses in the Emergency Room
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6
2008
The Age of the "Insurance Card Marriage"
Some people marry for love, some for companionship, and others for status or money. Now comes another reason to get hitched: health insurance.more »
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5
2008
A Glimpse of the Conservative Health Care Future
The failed partial privatization of Medicare shows us what happens when insurance companies have the power to run roughshod over consumers.more »
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5
2008
The Week In Blog: Conservative Health Care Follies
Can conservatives defend McCain's radical health care plan?more »
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2
2008
Weekend Watchdog
Will McCain's campaign adviser, former H-P CEO Carly Fiorina, be asked to explain what McCain's "radical" health care plan really does to working families?more »
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2
2008
"Hard Questions" Needed on McCain's "Radical" Health Plan
The Columbia Journalism Review is also struck at the "radical" nature of McCain's health plan, and scolds the media for not reporting on it carefully.more »
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30
2008
Time Magazine: McCain's "Radical" Health Care Plan
One journalist makes clear what McCain's health plan would really do. Will others follow?more »
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30
2008
Blogs React To McCain's Sick Health Care Plan
Since you probably didn't find much substantive analysis of McCain's health care plan in the traditional media, bloggers have taken up the task. And it isn't pretty.more »
